Title: Success Story #1 - The Impact
Type: Graph Slide
Content: Includes a bar graph with 5 elements; three elements for each (pre-intervention, post-intervention, and percentage reduced) of the following: reported injuries, injury incidence rates, modified duty days, lost work days, and injury costs.

Reported Injuries

Pre-Intervention = 144

Post-Intervention = 99

Percentage Reduced = 31%

Injury Incidence Rates

Pre-Intervention = 24

Post-Intervention = 16.9

Percentage Reduced = 30%

Modified Duty Days

Pre-Intervention = 2061

Post-Intervention = 256

Percentage Reduced = 88%

Lost Work Days

Pre-Intervention = 256

Post-Intervention = 209

Percentage Reduced = 18%

Injury Costs ($ Thousands)

Pre-Intervention = $481

Post-Intervention = $203

Percentage Reduced = 58%

Speaker Notes:

This chart shows the impact of the Ergonomic Program implementation. There was a decrease in reported injuries, injury incidence rates, modified duty days, lost work days, and injury costs.

By identifying patient care units with a high level of occupational risk to workers, a targeted back injury program was developed and implemented.
This program integrated the concept of ergonomics into a program to redesign high risk activities.